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VOL. XLIIL WINNSBQRO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1887. NO. 23.
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^ THE LAWS OF 1886.
A LIST OF THE ACTS PASSED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Xew KailroaUs. >c\v istuiKt aim ->ew nun
hh<1 Towns?A Kevietv of the Work of the
Legislature.
Below will be found a classified list of
most of the Acts passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly?one
hundred and forty-one in number.
^ There were twenty-four public or general
Acts, five appropriation Acts and thirtyrsix
Acts relating to county affairs. Besides,
there were sixteen Acts relating to
railroads, twelve to municipal charters,
twenty-nine to miscellaneous charters,
seven to stock law exemptions, two con
stitutional amendments, four relating to
k the sale of liquor and six of a miscellane^
ous character.
ATPRBOPBIATaOXS.
An Act to make appropriations for the
fiscal year commencing November 1,
J886,
An Act to make appropriations for the
payment of the per diem and mileage
* and stationery certificates of the members
of the General Assembly,' the salapes
of the subordinate officers and emBfc
ployees thereof, and for other purposes
A herein named.
A Joint Resolution to provide for the
payment of the expenses incurred by the
board of visitors of the South Carolina
Military Academy in repairs of the Cita\
del buildings.
W Joint Evolution relating to the serx~'w?
of aft/ifnov rrp-npml in tbft rpve
nue bond scrip cases.
An Act to raise supplies and make apw
prbpriations for the' fecal year beginning
fe November 2, 1886.
B STOCK LAW.
B An Act to exempt ceatain portions of
Colleton county from the operation of
9r the stock law. J
An Act to amend Chapter XXVII of
the General Statutes, relating to Uie general
stocK law and fencing stock.
^ ' : An Act to exempt certain portions of
Bk. Hampton county from the operation of
Chapter XXVII of the General Statutes,
B relating to the stock law.
B'" 1 " 'XJQU<^S LICENSES.
W^inAcfc to repeal an Act entitled an
Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous or
malt liquors within the county of Barnw#?n.
ftrmmvftd Dfft^mbpr 21. 1883.
^ An Act to amend an Act entitled an
Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous
liquors in the town of Union, approved
December 26, A. D. 1S84.
Apt to submit tho question of license
forihe sale of spirituous, malt or intoli^
eating liquors in Anderson and Laurens
K counties to the qualified electors thereof,
V and providing penalties for the violation
or evasion qy attempted evasion of the
prohibition 'law if a majority of said
electors vote in favor thereof."
An Act to authorize the sale of liquor
in Berkeley and Beaufort counties.
PUBLIC ACTS.
An Act to amend an Act prescribing
the mode of divesting the right of dower
~is. of insane married woman,
^ Joint .Resolution to extend the time
I- fV?A ^rtVAO f Oft
rJAAL UiC X-U^iLU Vi LXiC IwAto ivi. tug *;ov.u
year commencing November 3, 1885.
X An Act to provide for the formation
\ of certain corporations under the general
\ laws.
An Act to regulate the time for collecting
taxes by execution or distress.
An Act to' punish the stealing of
felons and fruit.
An Act to create a fund to be designated
"The Treasury Reserve Fona,"
and to provide for. the control of the
f same.
/ An Act to regulate the issuing and service
of warrants in criminal eases.
An Act to amend Section 618 of the
General Statutes of South Carolina, relating
to the repairs of highways.
An Act to amend an Act entitled '-An
"if Act to amend Section 1,830 of the General
Statutes, in relation to partition,"
approved December 26,18S5.
An Act to provide for transporting
person?convicted to the penitentiary by
the penitentiary .guards.
An Act to establish the South Carolina
Agricultural Farm and Stations.
Ail Act to repeal Section 1,040 and to
( amend Section' 1,042, Chapter XX, of
f the General Statutes, entitled "Of the
Universitv of South Carolina."
f An Act to amend Sections 2,236 and
2,237 of the General Statutes in relation
to juries.
An Act to fix the fee for dieting prisoners
in county jails.
Act Act to amend Section 1,687 of the
General Statutes relating to the hunting
+ of deer.
An Act to amend Section 2,497 of the
General Statutes of South Carolina in
relation to set-ting lire to grass.
An Act to regulate the public printing
in this State.' ; ;
RALLEOADS.
An Act to amend Section 1,476 of the
General St&?n$es, as to the running of
trains on Sunday.
An Act to amend an Act entitled "An
Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act
f to incorpoi-ate the Palmetto Railroad
Company,' approved December 21,
1882," approved December 26. A. D.
1884.
An Act tc confer certain rights upon
the Port Rojai and Western Carolina
Railway Company, to wit, to mortgage
its corporate property and franchises, to
extend its railway and to lease connecting
railways -
An Act to amend an Act entitled "An
Act to incorporate tlie -olackvilie and
Alston Ra\lroad Company," approved
December 24, 1885.
An Act to charter the Yemassee and
Walterboro Railroad.
An Act to amend an Act to charter the
Chester and Camde. Railroad Company.
An Act to change the nnme and amend
thecharter of the-Chester, Greenwood
and Abbeville Railroad Company.
An Act to incorporate the Edisto and
l ^afflteenches 'Ford Tramway Company.
L' Act to amend an Act to incorporfttp.
thft "NFftwberrv and XATrrens Railroad
Company anil tq validate all Acts and
contracts m&le in pursuance of the same.
COUXTY ATFAIRS.
An Aet to enlarge the boundaries of
school district No. 17, Fairfield county,
and make two school districts thereof.
An Act to amend an Act entitled ".in
Act to provide for the establishment of a
new school district in the county of
Darlington, to be known as the school
district of the town of Timmonsviilc,
ana to authorize the levy and collection
of a special school tax thereon."
An Act to reduce the number of trial
justices in Kershaw county and make
the office a salaried one.
An Act to limit, the number of trial
justices in certain counties in this State.
An Act to prescribe and fix the amount
of 'fee bond of the Probate Judge of
Wiliiamsburc ccuntv.
An'Act to" amend the law in relation
to "county comi^is&oneis ?iiid county
school commissioners.
-1?^ An Act to authorize ami ve- jinr? the
*
j county commissioners of York count}
| to submit to the qualified voters o1
j Broad River township and Bullock
! Creek township the question of trans!
ferring the subscription heretofore voted
: to the Georgetown and North Carolina
i Nor row Gauge Railroad to any othei
' i company after a limited period.
! An Act to create a school district of
; that portion of Barnwell county lying
i within the corporate limits of the town
| of Barnwell.
An Act to prohibit the county comi
missioners of York county from granting
! aid to the outside poor except as heroin
| provided.
An Act to limit the number of tiiui
I justices in York county, fis their terri;
torial juris, iction, and to provide for
! their compensation, and to provide for
i two trial j astices in the city of Spartanj
burg.
I An Act to authorize the town council
j of Winnsboro to issue additional bonds
j tor rebuilding and repairing Mount Zion
i College.
j An Act to authorize the county com;
missioners of Ciarendon county to bori
row money for building and repairing
! bridges and for the support of the poor,
j An Act relating to the reassessment of
j real property and the collection of taxes
j in certain portions of the counties of
j Charleston, Berkeley and Colleton,
i An Act to create a new school district
{within the township of Barnwell, in
! Barnwell county,- to be known as the
"Barnwell Graded School District," and
to authorize the levy and collection of a
local tax therein.
Joint Resolution authorizing and requiring
the county school commissioner
of Williamsburg county to pay to W. D.
Knox his school claim.
MUNICIPAL CHAPTERS.
An Act entitled "An Act to incorporate
the town of Kumphville, in the county
of Colleton." approved December 26,
A. D. 1885.
An Act to alter and amend the charter
of the town of Laurens.
An Act to amend an Act to incorporate
the town of Hampton.
An Act to renew and amend the char
i cer cx uu? town 01 wannsooro.
| Act to amend Section 6 of an Act enr
titled "An Act to incorporate the town
| of Barnwell," approved -March 1,187S.
An Act to oharter the to^n of Yoik!
vilie.
| An Act to araend the charter of the
j bown of Chester, ratified and approvedj
December 22,1885.
An Act to amend the charter of the
town of Kingstree.
! An Act to confer certain powers upon
the town council of Hodges in Abbeville
county.
MtoOBLLAXEOrS CHARTERS. "
An Act to. inpoxporate ,the Bamberg
! An Act" to rectiarter ' SjpUey's Ferry
j across Big Saluda Biver in ijdgefield
! county.
j An Act to charter the Bank of Green|
wood.
j An Act to charter the Spartanburg
' Encampment Association.
An Act to incorporate the Congaree
' Construction Company.
| An Act to alfer and amenlittlre^CfcCTter
! of the Young Hen's Loan' aid" Trust
1 Company oi Kock'Hiil, and to change
[ the mime thereof.
CONSTITUTIONAL AJDESmEEXTS.
j An Act to ratify the amendment to
i Article II of the Constitution of South
j Carolina by adding thereto a section, to
| be known as Section 4 thereof, in lieu of
| Sections 4 and 5 of said Article as it now
j stands.
An Act to ratify the amendment to
Section 14 of Article 9 of the Constitution
of the State.
inscEXJOAXEors.
At Act to amend Section *181 of the
General Statutes of the State of South
Corolina, in referen :e to the salary of
the Lieutenant-Governor.
An Act to provide for the issue of a
deficiency bond or stock to Octavius A.
White, in satisfaction of the guarantee
of the State oil a certain bond of the
Spartanburg and Union Railroad Com-!
pany.
An Act to cancel the matriculation
obligations of 0. J. Bond and Thos. P.
Harrison to the board of visitors of the
Aiilitary Academy and to define the manner
in which the said board may hereafter
deal with like cases.
An Act to allow persons who shall
have resided within this State for ten
years since the war, ana who have lost
their legs or arms or have been- permanently
disabled in the less doinrr mili
tary service, to obtain the benefits of the
Act to provide artificial limbs, kc.
Kain an<l the Forest?.
Among the popular errors in meteorology
mentioned by Professor Abbe on
Friday evening at the Franklin Institute
lecture is the common belief that the
destruction of forests reduces the amount
of the rainfall. In this he directly contributes
the testimony of the Forestry
Association. The Professor stated that
a very slight elevation of the surface
above the sea level by cosmic changes
was the pro"bable cause of any changes
which ha > occurred. "He did not refer
to the modification or the distribution
over the years of rainfall, but merely to
its total amount. In this connection it
may be noted that the census of the
United States in the volume on Social
Statistics prints a diagram of the amount
of rainfall in Philadelphia for the past
xisu j tfUc, acmo tJ-io x
Hospital, -which sIiot/s a gradual, but
general, increase in the annual precipitation,
although it will ' be generally
acknowledged that there lias been a
great destruction of timber for hundreds
of miles about the city in that time.?
Philadelphia. Ledger.
A Florid Speaker.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, is an |
orator of the old Virginia style, intro- i
duced by Patrick Henry and transmitted
down through sncceeding generations.
A specimen of this histrionic elocution
was the opening paragraph of" a speech
by Mr. ihmiel at Petersburg" during a
recent political campaign: "Fellowcitizens
of the old Commonwealth of
Virginia: X come to you from the fair
domain of the mother of statesmen and
Presidents. I come from the valley of
the Shenandoah, the daughter of the
stars. There tiie river flows, whispering
to its grassy banks the name of Lee,
Lee, Lee! The rivulets, flowing down
the mountain side to join the river
sweeping to the sea, -whisper the name
of Lee, Leo, Lee! And the northern
: plains, scimid by 'the fierce' feet of the
! <*r\A nf -trf! iv lr.nk r.ri tht- bln?. overarch
ing canopy of Leaven, and call to it
softly the name of Lee, Lee, Lee! 1
come from the Eastern Shore, where the
blue waves of old osean roll in upon the
shining sand", and sun and sea and shore
and breeze make glad the eye and heart,
and when I ask, What are the wild waves
saying? the answer comes, Lee, Lee,
Lee!"?Ben. Perley Poore in the Boston
Budget.
Pigs pt?y beUeFthaa mines for "a steady,
business l?e world over; although i>oth" le
'Salted" lifter
1'IXK BOOTS.
. A Story of Interest in the Cauite of Taniperance.
[ A drunken mac came staggering along
village street. As lie reached a corner.
be saw a group of boys watching something
across the way.' He had not en:
tirely lost bis sense?, so be wondered
what they found so interesting.
V.'ha-a-ar-yer-yer lookin' a-at?"
"Well, old fellow," answered Billy
Dorr, ' 'we're looking for a beauty to
come out of that door over there."
"A beau-tie?"
"Yes, a beauty; but go on, there is
no use o' lingering to see rink Boots;
your old, red eyes can't see half acros?
he street.*'
But the rude boy was mistaken; the
red eyes were not quite so blood-shot as
usual, and they were looking with as
much interest as the younger eyes at
Pink Boots, who just then opened the
door of the store opposite them and
came out Pink Boots was a beautiful
girl of ten years, and her hands full of
liowers?roses, lilies and carnations. She
walked a half dozen or more steps down
the walk, and was just stepping into a
handsome carriage when another little
girl came in sight. For a brief moment
the two children stood in strong contrast?Florence
Burr, with glowing, happy
face, and Celia Hunt, with her pale,
distressed one. Florence was dressed in
an elaborately embroidered pink cashmere
and her feet were encased in beaui
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mai jfcjiiin ajlu uutouucu wuw?xui xiurence
was going to a tea party. She |
wore also a broad-brimmed hat with
nodding pink plumes. As for Ocl^a, she
woro an old faded dress, sc. shai that
it revealed he? bruised ankles, which
were bare like her feet. An old veil
1 tied about her pinched face did duty as
head protector, but no wrap covered her
thin shoulders, although one was much
needed this chilly day.
The carriage drove aw&y "with Florence,
and Celia stead gazing after it. Of
course the urunken man saw the poor
child, so, did the boys. The latter
laughed, and Billy Dorr ssid: "I tell
you it pays better to sell liquor than it
does to drink it. What's vour opinion,
Daddy Hunt?" "
"Daddy Hunt did not answer; he
stood stupidly gazing at his barefooted,
weary-faced oMld.
"I say, old fellow, did you buy Celia's
fall outrit at the same store that Pink
Boots' father bought hers?"
"Shut up, now, will you? If yon
don't, I'll kaoek the breath out of it. '*
The drunkard snoke savacrelv and
raised his hand to execute Ms threat,
when suddenly ? little arm touch his,
and a voice said coaxingly: "Come,
father.''
The man suffered himself to be led
away from the heartless group; cruel
Billy dnging after them: "0 father,
dear father, come home."
It was a long walk to the drunkard's
home. Before he reached it, he was
sober. "Celia," he said, "wouldn't you
like some pink boots?"
"No, father, I would not wa?t themi"
"Why not?"
"They vouldni; correspond with my
Ta^sy1"-*!*? said bitterly; "and I
wouldn't wear Florence Burr's pink
boots if I had silk dresses to wear with
them," she added savagely. ?i?Again
her father que-itipne.d: ".Why
* '
j live;
i "Because they were bought with
money that ought to liave bought bread
and meat for poor starving children and
their crying mothers.5'
"Who told yo^ so?"
"Nobody told me, I found out for
myself."
"You're a strange child, Celia."'
."Yes, perhaps I am, but I love you,
father."
And Celia put her cold hand within
her father's.*
"I don't know how you can," he said,
chokingly.
"I guess it's because you're my father."
was the innocent answer.
As father and daughter entered the
house, the mother arose, put the sleeping
babe in its wretched cradle and said:
"Come to supper."
Such a supper for a family of sis!
Only a part of a stale loaf of bread and
some weak tea. The patient weary wife
would not have been surprised at her
husband had he thrown the bread across
the room at the wall and hurled the teapot
after it, cursing her at the same; time,
| as he had done often before, but she was
j surprised when he rose from the table?
| just after seating himself?and said huskily,
"Eat thi?miserable stuff if you can,
poor tilings J i must be gone.
He started for the door weak and faint,
but determined. His wife followed Mm,
beseeching, "Oh! don't go ont again tonight,
Fred., don't; the baby is sick,
and?"
She said no more for with the words :
"The little fellow is sick, is he?" the
father went back to the cradle, stooped
and kissed his infant child for the first
time, and arose with tears glistening upon
his" eyelashes.-1-~
"I'm not *g9ing out to drink, Man*.
Do not be worried ; Til be back by nine
o'clock, and if the child should get
worse, 'Celia will find me at Sergeant
Wright's."
"What do you suppose it all means,
mother?" asked Celia, as soon as the
father was gone.
"I don't know, child ; but perhaps it
means there is a blessing coming on us
all. Pray to God that it may be so."
"Mother," said C^lia, ''father asked
me this afternoon if X wanted pink boots.
What do you think of that?"
"It was a strange question, child. I'd
be thankful if he'd save enough to buy
you some black ones. Your feet are blue
with cold."
At nice o'clock a face peeped through
the little curtainless window cf the kitchen.
The eyes saw a desolate picture.
It was this: a bare cold-looking room ; a
haggard woman bending over a sick babe;
a little sad-faced girl fallen asleep on the
hard floor while bravely "waiting for
father," and two pale-faced boys asleep
on a low bed against the wall, tpon the
boys' faces were traces of tears, for they
were only little fellows of four and six,
and had cried themselves to sleep bfr/?Oil
CO 4"V? OT7 h ITXYVTT
WiAWjr ?t
The face moved from the windew. and
the man to whom it belonged opened the
door and walked in.
"Wife," he said, bending down to kiss
his wife's worn face for the first time in
years, "I've been an idiot and a brute,
and I'll not ask you to forgive me tonight.
Ill wait until yon them}: God :
that I am! 4bj deiia, 'you're waking,
child. Florence Burr will never buy any
more pink boots with the money that
belongs to the little ones. I've been over
to Sergeant Wright's, working hard at
blacking stoves for four hoursTand while
I blackened the stoves he whitened my
heart a little. Guci bless him! He paid
me, too, a good price and to-morrow I'm
to besrin work in his tin shon. "W^ke rm I
the poor little boys, Gelia, my dear little ;
girL Tell them their father, and not a .
unite, has come home, and brought such
a supper that they'll shout for joy."
The Front Kank Vapor Stove is a very
boon to house-keepers. It saves time,
money and trouble. See advertisement."
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I OLD VIRGINIA CHRISTMAS.
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MEMORIES OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON
IX THE DATS BEFORE THE WAR.
How the Family Kept "Watch for the Day,
and How They Enjoyed It When It
Came.
(Marlon Ilarland in the Courier-Journal.)
I In the davs that are no more, the legal
j Thanksgiving day was not known in
J Virginia. Nor yet New Year's day, as
kept by Knickerbocker burghers. The
Twenty-second of February was celebrated
by college orations; the Fourth
of July given over to political barbecues;
Christmas-time was the reservoir into
which debouched the flush tide of family,
social and national rejoicings. With
lofty as with lowly, it was a watch-tower
set on the hill, the benign light of which,
like the flaming sword guarding Eden,
flashed every way. Backward rays from
Christmas gone met and mingled with
the da-wn of Christmas coming. We
began to count the days yet unfulfilled
with the reddening of the rock maples.
The opening of tbe chinquapin burr;
the apple harvest; the fall of the leaf;
the change from pucker to sugar m
pulp of the persimmons?wertT waymarks,
impatiently numbered,4 in the
procession 01 rnontns ami wee?s toward
the eliminating glory of the - year.
Housekeepers commenced preparations
for it in sober earnest by -the last -week
of November, c~r>ecisliy in the country.
The traditions oi ->nr English ancestry
told mightily in modeling our habits of
life.
"C'HBISTjIAS IX TOWN"
"was deprecated with a dasli of compassionate
contempt by planters and tneir
families. They kept open houses at that
season with heartiness that looks to us
now like bootless extravagance. The
premises were set in order early in December
as for royal nuptials and court
banquets. Mincc-meat was already
made, moistened with peach brandy in
quantity and quality sufficient to season
it against must and mould, then packed
down in huge jars, and bladders tied
over the mouths. With the first hard
frost came "hog killing," providing
hams, spare ribs, chimes and sausages of
deliciousness inimitable, and to those
who never tasted them, unimaginable.
Pots of lard, "tried out" into snowy
hardness, were ranged on the store-room
shelves, destined to furnish hot baths
for the broods of summer chickens,
cooped up, and fattened on oats and
mush. Pens were built for stately turkeys
and pompons Muscovy ducks, and
the tenants fed as regularly and. bountifully
as were the children who hoped to
eat them. Later on, oame cake making,
never intrusted to the hand of hirelings;
fruit cake, with just enough flour
wrought into it to hold together the fat
and liberal soul; pound cake, into whose
manufacture sixteen ounces of each ingredient
was righteously compounded;
ginger cakes, warranted to keep for
mnnflic- cmVp {irwl lpmrvn on.lrps and. irt
the List davs of joyous activity, sponge
cake. Tr.oldPid and. frosted into snow-balls
as big as the fist7ancTo'wing tietrbuoy-{"
ant being to eggs and elbow-power, with
not so much as a dust of baking powders.
English plum pudding was not
made in every family. On the threshold
of this emprise, diffident housewives and
ease-loving cooks paused, dreading and
drunted. Only veteran divers, plunging
into the depths of ancestral recipes,
brought up success and established a
culinary reputation vaunted by children
and children's children. As December
nights grew toward their longest and
December days neareil the briefest of
the calendar, feather-beds were beaten
for ten minutes each, by the flail-like
arms of colored housemaids, under the
eye of the mispress or her factotum, and
provision of blankets, sheets, itc., made
for temporary sleeping-places. On a
rainy or snowy day, an armful of straw,
fastened to the end of a pole, was thrust
up the throat of every chimney to burn
out the encrusting soot. Hens, incited
to the full measure of their duty by arts
peculiar to colored poultry keepers,
yielded eggs by the hundreds for puddings
and pies, with especial reserves for
egg-nog.
BY CHRISTMAS EVE
every pantry was packed to groaning;
comets of llame and a galaxy of sparks
streamed from the kitchen chimney;
every eligible nook held a bed; a dozen
young girls with attendant gallants surrounded
the drawing-room fire; the
play of repartee and compliment, and
the ripple of light laughter rose and
ebbed to the piano accompaniment responsive
to the sweep of white fingers.
City guests were always bidden and al
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Wtt>S UU1L1U l/U U1C JJlttIJ.UlblV.LI. V-LLLIOI/LLIOO
frolic. "Company" was no trouble;
hospitality was as natural and easy as
breathing". But the holiday reception
was the cream of welcome to the visitor.
If eight bachelors slept and snicked in
"the office" in the yard, and as nn?^j
girls occupied the one spare chamber of
the homestead, nobody felt crowded.
There were plenty of feather beds and
blankets, great store of linen heirlooms
that required the woar of two generations
to make them thin, and big fires
burning all nigLit In every apartment for
ventilations.
Supper would bo served at 8 o'clock,
perhaps later. A repast of hot iried or
"smothered" chicken, stewed oysters,
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I OUT or live tllim UJL WiU -means, v?aaucs,
hot rolls, corn bread in divers shapes,
battercakes, wafers?as thin as paper,
that yielded crisply to the tc?tli. and
stimulated, net satisfied, appetite?damson,
meion, peach, quince, strawberry
and cherry preserves; home-made cakes,
tea, coffee and great pitchers of. milk
with all the cream left on, In
spite of the luxurious abundance ?* .
their menus, the Virginians of that date
were seldom gormandizers. There was
little tali in well-bred companies of eating
and drinking. Sumptuous fare was :
' ?: --t _r i: :
accepteu ao a. ptu. b ux uucj r, uauj juyxug,
and even high, feasts were never' mere
"feeds." If tliey lingerecl QY-e? 'their
supper cm this evening'it was in enjoyment
ct social converse, not of grosser
creature comforts,
THE PLANTATION" FIDDLER
was ia liis place at the top of the long ,
drawing-room when the hilarious bevy
fluttered hack thither. The poitly host
usually led off the first set with the
belle of the party, and his wife was
sometimes his vis a vis. Churchly elders
who had scruples about dentiug u\ general
were corded into taking the rioor
for this *'onee a year." As the clock
struck 12, tney joined nan as in a wiae j
circle and sang, "Auld Lang Syne." or, .
quite as often, {CPrais$ God from "Whom
all Blessings Flow." They were not
ashamed to name Him to whom all
praise belongs in those brave, simple
days?that are no more! One more set I
?the Virginia reel, danced on Christ- [
mas night in the Mother Country to this !
time, under the name of Sir lloger de
CoTerley?and the wassail bowl of eggnog
was brought in. A toast to the
health and happiness r,f present and ah
sent friends was drunk, and the girls
betoqk themselves to the cheery, crowded
chambers overhead, leaving the men
to spoke and" folk politics about the
drawing-room hearth.
Before sunrise every - sleeper on the
plantation was aroused by the deafening
boom of the "Chriatmae-guii." - A heavy
blast o? gunpowder wasf rammed into a
hollo fc'.tree and fired atrday break. Detonations
of lesser force followed, from
logs riddled with augerfwles and stuffed
with powder, -gtms, pistols, and "pop
crackers,*"" while the outcries of
? ??
-iims-gir my marsier. "unris jh&sgif'
my mistis!" tmder windows and . in
halls, rivaled the "baksheesh" yells of
the Bedowin.
Kobodv in that region, and time said
"Merry Christmas," but always "Christmas
Gift." The strife as to who should
get it first was, with children and
servants/ a claim upon the liberality of
the latter speaker. What was undoubtedly
the primal, significance of the greeting
was Bolcann and beautiful-?nothing
less thaffproclamation of the unspeakable
Gift heralded by th?> angels' anthem
alx)veL^jfcins of Bethlehem.
y^EHOI'IDATilSSX'. -Breakfipt
was not over until 10 o'clock,
dinner r.^cs served at 2 or 3 o'clock iu the
afternoon. Neither soup nor fish was
regarded as an essential to the feast.
Koast tnrkey at the head of the table was
balap_ce?_by boiled tnrkey with oy.'tfer
sauce at the^foot. Boast goose, midway
between the fovcij_mingle<ifragrant steam
with rising incense~orTbiist 'duck on the
other side of the castor; chicken, lamb,
roast beef and "shoat"?perhaps a sucking
pig baked whole?and the inevitable
boiled ham, were separated by vegetables,
pi-ikles, catsups and sauces. Family
silver reflected the sunshine of happy
fjces; cut-glass as old answered in silvery
chines the tuneful clamor of young
voices.
The courtly fashion of taking wine together
lent individual interest to the
revel. - ThVorbane host-was ever on the
iooKoui ior wportniiities to sena me
decantec alongK vith "Miss A., Mr. B.
asks the pleasure of taking a glass of
wine with you." Then the graceful lifting
of,glasses, the exchange of bows
across--1 the > l>oard, the complimentary
phrase-frOm one, the smile of acknowledgment
from the other?it is all oldfashiofied
now, but it was far prettier
than thfc customs that have driven them
out. |
"Ladies and gentlemen!" called out
dear old Major A. from the head of the
table in the flood-tide of the Christmas
wassail, "I crave leave to offer a toast!"
His plantation skirted the Appomattox
river, which lies between Powhatan and
Amelia counties. At his right sat his
favorite neighbor, Powhatan L., wbo
was betrothed to Amelia C., a Florida
belle, not present to-day.
"A toast!" repeated the host, rising,
mantling tumbler in hand, his eyes
brimming with fun and fondness. "I
give you?The Appomattox! May it
o -i * 1:~
cU xiun, LiJUib XUWiiiiUUi IUIU -n.iiiCJ.Ui
may be forever united."
THE OLD DAYS BEFORE THE "WAR.
Ah! that was the sort of thing they
did in the old Virginia days, before war
laid thr-ir pleasant places waste: People ;
watchea for chances to turn phrases
jisua<i^^clv^^^WHfhpcap^u?tie^of
auditors. Eleg^tcoiiver.^tion was a
popular accomplishment. Now, it :is ;
subsidiary to dancing, murdered by :
ilirtation. <
I have spoken of Christmas week. To 1
limit the festival to a single day would <
have been reckoned a maiming of their
chief social rite. From one manor-house
ro another rolled the gladsome party, ;
tarrying by appointment a day at this, i
a night at that, talking, dancing, driving,
walking, singing, love-making?in
such innocency of delight as is possible i
to none but the young. Now and then <
they danced Virginia reels, quadrilles, i
and cotillions (also out of fashion now,) ;
on the bare oaken floor of a barn-like :
parloi, furnished with uncushioned chairs
and thin-legged tables; as the wide, !
rambling house in which they encamped :
for a night's frolic was unpainted, win- ;
dows and doors had shrunk from the ;
casings, and the blaze of the Yule log i
riared in drafts pouring in front all quar- ]
ters. Sometimes their progress was '
made in rusty shackling chariots, lurch- 1
ing heavily through red mud two feet i
deep, and over corduroy roads tha.t :
would have shaken old hones from their 1
sockets. Over all and above all, they ]
carried the brave, gay spirit that laughs !
at external discomfort; found every- i
where gentle breeding and whole-souled ]
hospitality, adorning Christmas hospi- :
talitv as the flexible sprays of their own <
running-cedar the wassail-bowl. 1
? mm a. - 1
Divorce "Wanted After Fifty Years. j
James M. Teagarden, almost eighty 1
years of age, filed suit in the Circuit J
Clerk's office vesterday for divorce from
his wife, Sarah Teagarden, who is seven- <
ty-five, and with whom he has lived for 3
fifty years. To-morrow will be the
fiftieth anniversary of their married life,
iOa on December 26, 1S36, they were
united in a little Ohio village. In 186(3
they removed here, and the aged couple <
lived very quietly together, the petition ;
says, until a short time ago. The trout J
ble commenced by Mrs. Toagarden com- 1
pelling Mr. Teagardea to sleep on the j
tirst floor "while she occupied a room on )
the floor above. She did this, he says, 5
with the avowed intention of being pro- '
tected against burglars, but he began to :
suspect that at last, after fifty years of
companionship, she had grevm tired of '5
him. Finally hie icsjrioions' were sub- i
st^ntiated. 6ne morning Mrs. Teagar- <
den left the house and never returned ^
again, and now he wants a divorce.? 1
Kansas City (Mo.) Times, liac 24. ]
>Irs. June Brown Potter's Tribulations.
The lion, or the lioness if you please,
of the American colony in Paris is Mrs. i
James Brown Potter, of New York, whe <
io JLLVJ W <L ill L??V liUUiC VI ilCx lUiOiS, 1
the American Minister lUcL&ne. So t
numerous have the calls upon her time i
become that she has been compelled to <
decline all invitations to dinners or re- j
ceptions not given solely in her honor. <
It has, of course, annoyed her that this |
was unavoidable, but else was the f
lady to do? The an thinking Parisians, i
careless 6: all save their own enjoyment, ;
kept thrusting honor after honor upon ]
her, never pausing to think how onerous <
even honors become. Then, just to j
think, a French* cciaat who met Mrs. \
Potter dttring his visit to America de
vote3 a whole ehaj^t? . to her in tlie book j
of travels he has just published' IMrs.
Potter's lirst "farewell" appearance can 1
not be postponed much longer.
The Treacher do* Revolver. ?1
Middletowv Onio. December 28.? .
Mrs. Hend rick son, wife of ex-Policeman
Hendrickson, while showing a neighbor *
List night how she would treat tramps if
any molested her, took a revolver from a '
drawer and tired a shot in the air from the
door. As she was returning it to the ?
drawer, the weapon was again in some way 1
discharged and Mrs. Hendrickson's o-year <
<>ld daughter was instantly killed. *
ACT* or THE LEGISLATURE.
Some Matter* of special Interest to tlie
People of tlie State.
The foiling Acts are among those
passed at the lust session of the Legislature
and all relate to matters of special
interest:
SUNDAY FREIGHT TWAIN'S.
Section i,47o of theGeneral Statutes,
in relation to running freight trains on
Sunday, as amended at the recent session
of the Legislature, reads as follows: "It
. "u~ i r.,i
2>iiuu uu IUI wi^ittuuua ur
persons to run on said day during tlie
months of April, ilay, June, July and
August trains laden exclusively' with
vegetables and fruits, and on said day in
any and every month their regular mail
trains and such construction trains as
maybe rendered necessary by extraordinary
emergencies other than those incident
to freight or passenger traffic, and
such freight trains as may be in transit
which can reach their destination by 6
o'clock a. m."
Sec. 1,477, reading as follows, remains
unchanged: "It shall be lawful for any
train running by a schedule made in conformity
-with the provisions of this Act,
but delayed by accident or other unavoidable
circumstance, to run until it reaches
the point at which it is usual for it to
rest on Sunday."
lite ; dp. licenses ix beaufort axd
berkeley.
An Act to provide for the issuing of
license to sell spirituous and intoxicating
liquors, ale, malt and wine in Berkeley
and Beaufort counties:
Section* 1. That from and after the
approval of this Act, it may be lawful
for the county commissioners of Berkely
and Beaufort counties to issue licenses
for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating
liquors, ale, malt and wine in their respective
counties to such persons as may
conform to the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 2. That before issuing such
lt/?*vnc^c ka
LU JLUU*3t k/C
recommended by six respectable freeholders
of the neighborhood ill which
the liquor is to be sold, and enter into
a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars,
-with three good sureties, for the
keeping of an orderly house, and for the
due observance of ail laws relating to the
retailing of spirituous liquors, and must
pay to the treasurer of the respective
counties* to be applied to general county
purposes, the sum of three hundred dollars.
All licenses to expire on the 31st
of December in each and every year.
Sec. 3. That all Acts and parts of
Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and
the same is hereby, repealed so far as
Berkeley and JBeaufort counties are concerned,
except as to the incorporated
towns or villages in which the provisions
of law as now existing shali remain in
force.
foreign* ixsu2uxce companies.
An Act to amend an Act entitled "An
Act to reguiate the admission of foreign
surety companies to do business in this
State," approved December 26, 188-i, so
far as same affects clerks and officers of
banks and banking institutions and railroad
companies:
Section 1. That an Act entitled "An
Act to regulate'the admission of foreign
surety companies to do ousiness in tms
State," approved December 26,188A, be,
and the same is hereby, amended by
"STr.2'4. Thermovisions of this Act
shall not apply to surety companies so
Ear their giving surety for clerks and
officers of baniis and banking institutions
and railway companies is conserned.
THE UNIVERSITY OF S0CTH CAROLINA.
An Act to repeal Section 1,0-10 and to
amend Section 1,012, Chapter XX, of
the General Statutes, entitled "Of the
University of South Carolina:"
Section 1. That Section 1,042, in
f!har>tftr XX. r>f thf? (tp7)Ptti.1 Kfi&fcnu^.
sntitled "Of the University of South.
Carolina," be amended so as to read as
follows: "Section 1,042. Tlie tuition
tees shall be forty dollars per annum,
which fees shall be deposited in the
State treasury and reported to the Legislature
annually; and the compensation
for room rent, use of library and damigcs
to property shall be regulated by
the board oi trustees, but shall not be
less ten doliars per annum: Provided,
1'hat no tuition i'ecs shall be charged!
until after the expiration of the eoilegiite
year 1880-87, and that ail tuition
fees in the law* department be subject to
the disposal of the trustees for the payment
oi the salary of the law professor:
Provided, further, That the iacilty of
the said University may grant beuenciary
scholarships, without the payment of
iny fees, to such of the compete at and
leserving youths ox this State as may
be unable to pay the same, and the
trustees of the Si?id University shall prescribe
such rules and regulations as may
be proper to confine the enjoyment of
:his privilege to t.iose whose necessities
require it.
Sec. 2. That Section 1,040 of the Gen
2ral statutes be, and the same is hereby,
lepealed."
A ScU<>aI-??lrl'fS Sutldc-n liliiuluc*?.
A remarkable case of blindness ocjurrel
at Alliens a few days since. The
students o- tlio Grant University were
laving a literary entertainment, and
imong those who took part was a Miss
lie McL'aine. "When her part on the
Programme was reached the young lady
stepped forward with a bright smile jegan
a beautiful recitation. In the
iiidst of the jjeie she was noticed to
:alter aiid placed her hands over her eyes
ind was led from the stage, when the
A t..A ..J 1
utj> uiujjcu ciiiiw jjluu tfuulenly
stricken totally l>llud. She was
alien through tiiis city yesterday by her
:a*ber to Cincinnati to consult an emiiciit
oculist.?Chattanooga (Tcnaessee)
rimes.
Decidedly Wrong.
Innovation is tno order of the uav,
md some glorious old usages are b jing
y'thci' dispensed with or so altered as to
c?ork out almost a perfect transforma;ion.
Thc.y have not only changed the !.
ttoT" rvf iA??AnnrirtiOi i/in l\nf it'att ?
?? V-'X ^UVJiUUViULlVLi, ?' V \ bii v-f^v^ f? tij'
:*f spelli ii g. The simp^eai words are being
tampered with'.' And now these
jrsi.j spelling reformers are trying to
persuade people to spoil kiss -with one s.
fee attempt will be a failure. Tlie man i
svho lifts a finger, so to speal^ io shorten
i kiss, v.iil bring upofc himself the
hatred of the rising generation. The
:endeiicy is rather to add more s's. That
is, to make the kiss a yard and a half or
two yards long, or as "loxig as a strong
young man hold his breath. If the
IdsiiuM- spell is shortened, other intringraents
will be made, and the nest :
thing we hear of will be that wooing :
in/I /wnn rr o t>r*. o~?1 -f)>ocd rvfTmv
ywAli r I.?, V*. WJ-lVcV i-i-iC3
toapsy-woopsities which make up that
blissful dreaming which antedates the
union of two soi. 3 with but a single
thought, etc., ..'3 be removed from that
jnrapturing inertness which preserves
the melody of two hearts beating together
in one unbroken harmony, and the
whole process of love-making vrill be ;
consigned to the freezing agenoy of the
telephone and earned on at a disgusting
fastener. i> e are "agin it," and it; ought, j
lo be frowned down. 1
PEfKERTON CAUGHT THEM.
ALL EIYE OF THE EXPRESS ROBBERS
IX CUSTODY.
A >Ia.rvelous Narmtiw of Their Detection
Through the Impudence of Ringleader
Wit rock in Writing the ".Jim Cnramings''
Letters.
(From the Philadelph'a Times.)
It is made known through the Pinkerton
detectives that they have capturcd
and fastened the evidence upon five men,
j who were concerned in the robbery of
the ' dams Express car on the St. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad on the night
of October 25, thirty-six miles from St.
Louis. The most important clue was
obtainable through the "Jim Cuminings"
letters to a St. Louis paper which
were written by Fred Wit-rock, who,
with a man named Weaver, both engaged
in business in Chicago, were the principals
in-the afiair. A portion of the
$60,$00 stolen was recovered from the
five men, from Witrock's wife and from
an innocent stranger, who had in good
faith undertaken to hold $4,500 for
Witrock. The detectives refuse to say
whether Express Messenger Frothinghaxa
was concerned in the crime.
UAU' TT TV 4 Cr TVAVP
XIV^ ?? XX l'.io
To-night the Pinkerton detective
officials revealed the facts of the arrest
of five men for the robbery of the
Adams Express car of ?60,000 on the St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad on the
night of October 25. TLe men under
arrest are Frederick Witrcck, who is the
author of the "Jim Cummings" letters,
and is claimed to be the man who perpetrated
the robbery; W. W. Haight, an
ex-employee of Express Company, who
is supposed to have aided in planning
the robbery from his knowledge of the
railroad "ran;" Thomas "Weaver, a
Chicago laundryman, who was with
Witrock before and after the robbery;
Edward Kinney, a brother-in-law of
Witrock upon whose body was found a
considerable portion of tlie express
money, and Oscar Cook, who liid Witrock
after tlie robbery, and divided the
money and mailed tlie "Jim Cummin gs"
letters. The detectives have turned up
about $15,000 and estimate that from
81:0,000 to ?45,00 is still unaccounted for.
The detectives hit on no clue to the
robbers until the *'Jim Cummings" kttcr
was addressed to the 3t. Louis GlobeDemocrat,
and upon this they detected
the criminals. First they started to find
all the people who had left the service
of the Express Company during the
year and found W. W. Haiglit, who had
been discharged for theft and who had
been a messenger between St. Louis and
Vinita, Indian Territory, the same run
upon which was amployed Frothingham,
the messenger in charge of the plundered
car. Haight worked in Chicago for
Witrock, who kept a coal yard, but left
the city on October 27, saying that he
was going to Florida. He had been very
poor, but suddenly exhibited plenty of
money.
The next step was the discovery that
"Witrockand Weaver left this city on
.yctoberi'Z, -wen armed and equipped
for hunting, wfiiclithev sai<? was their
object in Arkansas, -whither they -were
going. "Weaver returned to Chicago
October 22, and after the robbery occurred
the Cummings letter to the GlobeDemocrat
was received and stated that
he had gone to a point on the Missouri
river, opposite Labadie and floated ,
down in a skiff. At St. Charles the de- ;
tectives found that the two men answer- <
ing the description of Witrock and
Weaver had bought a skiff on October :
14-, but had gone up the river.
USING THE MICROSCOPE.
From this point the search reverted to !
the bundle which "Jim Commings:' said :
in his letter he had left at the Union
Depot, St. Louis, and in it were discov- 1
ered some printed ballads, on one of <
which was the address 2108 Chestnut <
street, but so faint at. to be only discernible
under the microscope. This .
was a boarding house in St. Louis kept <
by Mrs. Beny, who remembered that 1
men resembling Witrock and Weaver !
\ia/\ Imr Iiaiicd nn 1Q
and Weaver left on October 22, saying ;
he was going to Kansas City, Witrock i
ostensibly following him on tlie evening I
of October 2o. j
In the rooms the two men had occu- 1
pied were found two stamps correspond- 1
ing to the labels on two valises shipped :
to St. Louis from St. Charles, which i
proved to be the baggage of the men <
who had procured the skiff at St.
Charles. Then a watch was set over 1
Witrock and "Weaver's places in Chicago, :
and five weeks ago & daughter and son !
of Mrs. Berry came to Chicago identified
Weaver as one of the men who had ,
roomed at their house. Oscar Cook, a 1
close friend of Witrock, was found to ;
have gene to, Kansas City, where lie i
lived, c,t the house oi a woman named :
Oox, but frequently left the city, his ab- i
sence being invariably followed by the ;
c.rvrwa<rra,ni?** r\? r\-nn
v* VMV Vi UJiW ViUJ. VUiii" ?
mmgs" letters. A detective ingratiated .
himself with Cook and accompAaied him <
to gambling houses in the guise of a <
friend, Coc? aiways having plenty oi *
rr.o^ey. The lookout for Witrock was '>
kept up in Chicago without avail until 1
list Tuesday night, when another <
"shadov,-," whom the detectives did not ;
know, -jid a large man looking like <
Witrock entered Witrocks residence, No.
10 JUincoln street Kinney was run- 1
ning the coal yard for him, and having 1
gone to Quincy a detective managed to i
- ?w w W *3k.JUOXL^zjr OJLLLLUUXLlx*
iog the return of Witrock to Chicago,
aad signed by the latter s wife, Rose.
"FINDING MAX AND MONEY.
"When Kinney returned to Chicago he
and Weaver were sees \o, cautiously en- ;
tor the Witrqok House, the blincls of
which T>"yre eoastantly drawn, although :
lights oould be seen inside. On Friday :
morning the mysterious shadow came <
out of the Witrock Housex as did also ]
Kinney, and, after yoking a carefid sur
vey, "Witcock appeared. The ineu went 1
south on Lincoln street, showing evident ;
alarm ail the vhile; and entered a liquor
store kept by an Italian on Madison '
street ne?-.r Lincoln. Robert A. Pinker- 1
ton and two operatives shadowed the
place until Kinney went out when they i
entered and arrested Witrock after a :
sharp straggle. Tha latter attempted to 1
draw a revolver, two of wliicli were
found' on L'is person- He protested
against the indignity, but he was searched
and $110 taken from a red pocketbook
found on his person. The shadow '
was searched and $4,500 was found on
his person. The shadow turned out to
be a young man named George. W. '
Bumham, whom Witrock Lad met in ^
Savannah, Ga. Ho explained that he
had come l\orth with Witrock and had ;]
Ali- 1-x?.?5- > ?- ** if"
oui^owcu me iuLLer s nouse, as wixrocis ,
hud explained that he had shot a man in
Chicago in a row and wanted to escape 'j
arrest. He was afterwards released,
tthen he had explained to the satisfaction
of the detectives that he had no :
knowledge of or connection with the ' *
robbery.
I) ISTRIBUTTXG THE BOODLF.
When Kinney reappeared he was
searched and $1,000 in loose money was
found on his person, while in a belt
around iiis waist was found ?4,000 addition;).!.
These men were ironed and taken
to the Piokerton Agency in a close carriage.
A search of the Witrock house
resulted in finding a skirt on ilrs. Witrock
into which $1,900 was sewed in $50
notes. A bunch of money, $450 in all,
was also found on her person, together
with 4 carat diamond. Weaver was arrested
in the coal yard about the same
time, and in the basement of his house
was found $3,000 in some frnit jars.
The arrest of Cook and Haiglit was then
ordered by telegraph.
THE OUTLOOK FOK THE BOY.
The Optimistic View of His Opportunities
To-Day.
(From the Shoe and Leather Reporter, Dec. 23.)
This is a good age to be born in; the
infant of to-day whose life is prolonged
to the alloted term will see more wonders
than any of Lis predecessors have seen,
and if the world continues to progress# )
as fast as it has been progcegs^ during ,
the past seventy years, the opporhunKes
will be before him of a fortunate career.
He vrill be in a larger sphere and tinder
greater responsibilities, but the more s ?"
that is required of him the stronger will
be his power of achievement. Men always
rise to the occasion. If any wort is to
be accomplished, somebody is sure to
come forward and take it in hand. No
matter how arduous the undertaking, if
it is within the scope of human prowess
its completion will not be suffered to fail. 1
It may be hindered, thwarted, misdi- jl-<
reeled, but in the end it will be successful.
Eivalry is the powerful motor by
which great enterprises are impelled, and
the zeal with which men are competing
niiu uuicio lui LJJ.C xurciuusc jjincea ui
tlie domain of industry and of art makes
the contest for superiority intensely exciting.
Everybody wants to be in it; to
stay out is to be lost sight of. And so
year by year multitudes' of new aspirants
are entering the list^the strife for posi- ;
tion is increasing^ud the results of the
honorable emtilation are exceedingly
beneficial.
THE PESSIMISTIC VIEW.
(Fr-m the Christian. Union, Dec- 23.)
Taking all in all, the lot of a boy
thrown entirely upon his own resources
in this city is little less than hopeless.
Even if permitted to live at home, the
boy who is forced to go upon the streets
or into the factories before he has
strenfrth or efJnflfliirvn tn rln cntJi urm-lr io
probably doomed to remain an unskilled
workman all his life. Every year manufacturing
is carried on upon a larger and
larger scale, and the division of labor is
becoming greater and greater. As a result
of this no t only does the gulf between
capitalist and labor widen, but there
widens with it a gulf between skilled
labor and unskilled. The boy who goes.
into the factory does not learn the business,
cannot lay up capital. The time
was when the boy who went in at the
bottom could come out at the top. Is.
this possible in New York City to-day?
The Uleasurement of the Year*
The length of the year is sirictly 365
days 5 hours 48 minutes 49 seconds -and
seven-tenths of a second?the time l-e-1 &&
nnirp/1 fnr thfi wvnlnHnn nf f.ho forty1 -x
round tlie sun. About 45 B. C., Julius
Caesar, by the help of Sosigiues, an Alexandnan
philosopher, came to a tolerably
clear understanding of the length of
a year, and decreed that every fourth
year should be held to consist of 366
clays for the purpose of absorbing the
odd hours. By this rather clumsy arrangement
the natural time fell behind
the reckoning, as, in reality, a day every
fourth year is too much by 11 minutes.
10 seconds and three-tenths oi a second;
so it inevitably followed that the beginning
of the year moved onward ahead of
the point at which it was in the days of
Caesar. From the time oi the Council
v:aortr a t\ ?i il- -i ^
ujl jui o-u a, u., wubu me vernas
equinox fell correctly on the 21st of i
March, Pope Gregory found, in 1582
A.. D.. that there had been an over-reckuning
to the extent of 10 days, and that
the vernal equinox fell on the 11th of
March- To correct the past error,
decreed that the 5th of October of that .
year should be reckoned as the 15th,
ind, to keep the year right in future?
the overplus being 18 hours 37 minutes
ind 10 seconds in a century?he ordered
that every centennial year that could not
be divided by four (1700, 1800, 1900,
2100, 2200) should not be bissextile, as
it otherwise-would be; thus, in short,
Iropping the extra day three times every
tOO'years. While in Catholic countries
Lhe Gregorian style was readily adopted,
it wa.s not so in rrotestant nations. In
Britain it w;os not adopted until 1752, by
which time the discrepancy between the
Julian and Gregorian periods amounted
to 11 days. An act of Parliament was
passed dictating that the 3d of September
that year should be. reckoned the
14th, and that three of every four centennial
years should be leap years. 1800
not being a leap year, the new and. old
styles now differ 12 days, our 1st of
January being equivalent to the 13th
aid style. In .Russia alone of Christian
countries is the old style retained. The
aid style is still retained in the Treasury
lccounts of Great Britain. In old times
Llic year was held to begin on the 25th
if -.lurch, and this usage, or piece of
miiquity, is also still observed in the
. oraputations of the Chancellor of the
British Exchequer. So the first day of
:he financial year is the 5th of April,
oeing "Old Lady Day."?Boston Journal
of education.
KEY. THEQ, i. CCYJLEK, D. D.
fih Position?O that Wc Had a Million Dr.
Cuyler's America "VV'ouI<l be Free.
My temperance creed is verj^short,
md my course is very straightforward.
[ believe in total abstinence from mat- - ^
ing, drinking, offering, or selling any
md all intoxicants. I shall fight the
irinking usages of society by pulpit,
pen, and tougue as long as God gives me
Life ; and God's word and His gospel, and
the prayers and labors of God's people,
ire indispensable helps to our success.
Righteous Laws demand a public conscience
behind them; cur Society aims
to create and quicken that conscience.
I abhor all dram-dens, and am ready to
joiu hands with all honest prohibitionists,
of every party and sect, in all wise
efforts to suppress the rum oligarchy.
Bread! Bread!
Chicago, December 30.?A. Times special
from Albany, Texas, says: "The county
judges of iite drought-stricken district arc
ub mvi V.UUU uuax. x rf^ixvj
counties arc* represented. They report an
aggregate of 27,900 persons in actual need3~f
food and clothing. They will make an
official report to-morrow and publish an
appeal to the Legislature and ask the en- v
iorsement of the Governor. They will also v;
make an appeal to charitable people for >
ro '?*f "
A mail TviiO talks about liimself is SQmerirn^s
m fool but seldom a slanderer.